Elizabeth Heyrick (1769-1831) and Alexander McDonnell (1794-1875) held opposing views on slavery in the British colonies at the beginning of the nineteenth cent

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“Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America.”—Fl